Sunday 28 September 2014
PM Gr-II, PM Gr-III, HSG-II & HSG-I Officials cannot be the member / office bearer of Gr-C Unions: Important Clarification with ref to the Directorate.
Source: Postmaster Andhra Pradesh & Telengana: http://postmasters-dop.blogspot.in/
Wednesday 24 September 2014
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आल इंडिया
एसोसिएशन ऑफ़ पोस्ट्मास्टर कैडर
All India Association of Postmaster
Cadre
केंद्रीय मुख्यालय
(सी.
एच
.क्यू
.) /Central
Headquarter (CHQ)
कैंप - धारावी /Camp at Dharavi PO, मुंबई ४०००१७/Mumbai-400017
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To
All
the CHQ Members
&
Circle Secretaries, AIAPC
Subject: Line of action to be taken by
us for making Postmaster Cadre as “Distinct Category” under Clause (c) of Rule
5 of Central Civil Services (Recognition of Service Association) Rules, 1993 towards
recognition of All India Association of Postmaster Cadre (AIAPC)
My
dear friends,
Hope all of you are very fine along with
your family, colleagues and friends. You, all know that we submitted our
proposal for recognition of AIAPC to the Directorate on 15/10/2012 and
thereafter pursued the matter in person twice. Since no response has been
received from the Directorate end and as
a part of decision taken in the 2nd AIC held in Jaipur on
17/08/2014, we submitted our 2nd proposal by Speed Post which was
received at the Directorate on 28/08/2014(copy is appended below as
Annexure-A).
With a view to pursue the matter, our Asstt. Secretary
(Delhi Circle) with some honourable delegates visited to the SR Section of the
Directorate on 04/09/2014. During his visit at the Directorate, it was learnt that
no action had been taken by them on our initial proposal and the related papers
also were not traceable there. From the incidence, you all can easily presume
that there are so many unfavourable forces actively working against us and
frequently making obstacles in our way.
Secondly, you all are aware that the Cadre
Restructuring Committee comprising of both the existing union leaders has taken
a very vindictive view towards Postmaster Cadre as elicited from the
recommendation number (f) of the committee. The same is reproduced below:
“In respect of Postmaster Grade I, Grade II and Grade
III Posts, once the recommendation of this committee are implemented; the
matter will be examined in the light of the same”.
From the above neglected statement it is crystal clear
that they are not at all interested for well being of Postmaster Cadre. Every
member of Postmaster Cadre is requested to realize it by heart and remember.
Please indentify who is your friend? Who is your foe?
But we have taken vow that we have to earn our
legitimate claim/right in getting recognition of our own association at any
cost. So, in this present situation particularly keeping in view of the 7 CPC,
we are more determined for achieving our goal. Therefore, friends, it is the
prime time to show our unity for our strength. We strongly believe on the
famous proverbs “determination leads to success”.
Now we are coming to the point. In previous occasions,
the Director (SR) remained less interested regarding the separate platform for
the Postmasters. This time also he initially suggested for joining us with the
Supervisor’s Association or any existing P-III unions.
But I am very glad to inform you that after a prolong
discussion, he finally agrees to process for a separate association for
Postmaster Cadre if we have the
working strength of at least 35% members
in the cadre and such members should not be attached with any one of the
existing union/association. Minutes of the discussion is appended below
as Annexure-B.
In this regard he has advised us to
submit the proposal afresh once again as early as possible invariably
incorporating the following:
1. Fresh proposal
for formation of association along with the justification of formation of
separate association. Following line should be incorporated in the letter ( No
form to represent our grievances at present in the light of 7th pay
commission and name of the association etc)
2. Cadre formation letter intimate the total working and
sanction strength in Postmaster Cadre
3. Copy of Memorandum of Association.
4. By Laws of Constitution.
5. List of Office Bearer and Consent of members. Member
ship details should be in the below format:
Name
of the Member
|
Designation
|
Official
Address
|
Membership
Number
|
Action for compliance on Sl. (1 to 4)
above will be jointly taken by Maharashtra and West Bengal Circle on the basis
of mutual discussion through telephone, by post or internet media. However, we
seek valuable opinions/suggestions from all of you regarding Sl. (1) above i.e.
in showing the justification formation of separate association.
Opinions/suggestions of individual members in this regard are most welcome.
Therefore, please seek the opinions/suggestions from individual members of your
circle too. Any opinions/suggestions may please be mailed to postmasterswb@gmail.com directly for
compilation and incorporation in the proposal preferably by the end of this
week.
For compliance of Sl. (5) above,
following action must be taken by each circle on urgent basis:
I.
Membership Number may be allotted to every
member in the uniform format:
AIAPC—(name
of circle in abbreviation as chosen by circles)-- (Sl. No),
i.e. AIAPC-WB-01(For membership no 01 of W. B.
Circle).
II.
Collection of forwarded copy of application
for stoppage of monthly subscription addressed to the respective DDOs i.e.
withdrawal letter from existing unions. Those who have not yet submitted the same
should submit the application to the respective DDOs immediately. Proforma
application and model application is appended below as Annexure-C (1) &
Annexure-C (2) respectively. This document should be self attested by the
concerned member.
III.
Collection of Consent Letter in favour of
AIAPC afresh together with Authorization Form (appended below as Annexure-D
& ANNEXURE-III respectively) in duplicate. One copy of Option Form will be
retained at Circle Association and one copy of Authorization Form will be
retained at Divisional Association for submission to the respective DDOs before
the membership verification starts, i.e before 1st April, 2015.
IV.
The self attested
copy of withdrawal letter, another copy of both the Option Form and
Authorization Form may please be sent to Mr Himangshu Kr Modak, Postmaster,
Grade-II, Narkeldanga PO, Kolkata 700011. Mob: 098745-44912 (Circle Secretary,
AIAPC, WB), in consolidated manner (using the format given is Sl. (5)
above) from each Circle by Speed Post for national consolidation as well as
processing for onward transmission to the Directorate. Soft copy of the filled
up proforma as per Sl. (5) may also please be mailed to: postmasterswb@gmail.com in advance.
V.
Our counterparts in J &K, HP, Kerala, Chattisgarh,
Bihar, Assam and NE Circle who are still outside the mainstream movement are
also requested to participate in the above exercise for the cause of community
of Postmaster Cadre. Details of our CHQ Members are given in separate
attachment.
It is, requested that this letter must
be widely publicized through any medium
you choose and whole exercise may please be completed within 30 working days.
So, be geared up friends. Good days are about to come.
With
profound regards,
I am,
Yours truly,
S/d-
Sri Ganesh Sable
Postmaster, Grade-I
General Secretary (Ad-hoc Committee)
All India Association of Postmaster Cadre
(Proposed)
Date: 10/09/2014 Camp at: Dharavi PO, Mumbai-400017
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Annexure-A
Annexure-A
********************************************************************
To
The
Hon’ble Director General
Department
of Posts, Dak Bhawan,
Samsad
Marg, New Delhi 110116
Dated
at Mumbai 400017, the 26/08/2014
Subject: Prayer for making Postmaster
Cadre as “Distinct Category” under Clause (c) of Rule 5 of Central Civil
Services (Recognition of Service Association) Rules, 1993 and recognition of
All India Association of Postmaster Cadre
Respected
Madam,
I beg to draw your kind attention on
the following facts for favour of your kind consideration and providing natural
justice to the officials of Postmaster Cadre.
Following line was mentioned in para 2
of the Directorate’s letter no. 4-17/2008-SPB-II dated 22.11.2010, “Thus, in
order to ensure that professionally qualified, trained and meritorious
officials head the key Post Offices, it has been decided to introduce a
separate cadre of Postmasters comprising the following grades by carving out
the posts from existing General Line posts as ordered vide this Directorate’s
letter No. 13-2/2010-PE-I dt. 03.02.2010”
Again, in view of the creator of our cadre,
Madam Radhika Doraiswamy, Hon’ble former DG Posts, Postmaster Cadre is the
front runners of the department and they are made to bring back the past glory
of the department vide her DO No. 1-28/2010- Trg dated 11/08/2011 addressed to
all new entrants of Postmaster Cadre.
We are recruited by merit (by
examination) not by promotion (on the basis of seniority cum fitness).
Our cadre is the only cadre in the Department of Post
for which an exclusive managerial training program has been designed and provided
by the department to make us professionally trained and to cope up with the
change management environment in the department.
We are heading the important Post Offices, in which
all type of services/products offered by the DOP are activated as well as
running smoothly.
We have adequate knowledge regarding computer, server,
and laptop including connectivity of computers which are forming part of
syllabus for LCDE for Postmaster Grade-I Examination.
We always take keen interest in implementing various projects
of the Department sufficiently better than time scale SPMs, LSG / HSG
Supervisors and we always remain in favour of administration in this regard.
We are taking most important role in mechanization of
postal services particularly migration to Core Banking Solution (CBS).
We never participate in any kind of strike/Bandh/Pen
down program, thus rendering uninterrupted services to the members of the
public. As a consequence, existing unions are now, not in a position to make
their strike / bundh programme successful upto that level as they desire.
Some of us belong to Group-C (Postmaster, Gr-I) while
others belong to Gr-B (Postmaster Gr-II, III & Sr Postmaster) in accordance
with the relevant Recruitment Rules.
It is also mentioned against Clarification 2 of the
Directorate’s letter F. No
4-17/2008-SPB-II dated 10th February, 2011, “In case it is decided
to discharge the probationer from Postmaster Grade-I and Grade-II, the official
will be reverted to General Line”. This itself inter-alia
clarifies that the Postmaster Cadre doesn’t belong to General Line in the
Postal Wing of the DOP.
As, presently, we don’t belong to General Line and our
cadre was created against the sweet will of the existing P3 unions, there is no
unions/associations to promote our common service interest in accordance with
Clause (b) of Rule 5 of CCS(RSA) Rules, 1993.
Therefore, in order to promote our common service
interest, we formed our All India Association of Postmaster Cadre (AIAPC) in
our 1st All India Conference held at Rusi Mehta Hall in Mumbai on
01.10.2012 in presence of more than one hundred delegates from different
circles.
We applied for recognition of our AIAPC vide
this association letter dated 15.10.2012, but till today, we didn’t receive any
communication from the Directorate in this regard.
Thereafter, in our 2nd All India Conference
held at OOPER RESTO LOUNGE , Jaipur on 17/08/2014, we have decided to
apply afresh for the recognition of our
association.
Therefore, in accordance with Clause (e) of Rule 5 of
CCS(RSA) Rules, 1993, I do hereby submit the Memorandum of our association,
Constitution bye-laws of AIAPC, names of
the office bearers (prepared in separate
sheet). Here I would like to inform that our total membership is now more than
700.
I, therefore, request before your kindness to
declare the Postmaster Cadre as “Distinct Category” in the Postal Wings. It
is also requested to render recognition to All India Association of
Postmaster Cadre under Rule 5 of CCS (RSA) Rules, 1993 and cause necessary
order for starting verification process
of our membership under Rule 7 of the said rule to enable us to
promote common service interest of our cadre.
We
solicit an early action in this regard. Thanking you,
I remain,
Yours faithfully,
S/d-
Sri Ganesh Sable
Postmaster, Grade-I
General Secretary (Ad-hoc Committee)
All India Association of Postmaster Cadre
(Proposed)
Camp at: Dharavi PO, Mumbai-400017
Enclo: As above
*********************************************************
Annexure-B
Minutes of meeting held at Directorate on 04/09/2014
for
All India Association of Postmaster Cadre.
All India Association of Postmaster Cadre.
A meeting has been held with Director (SR) on
04/09/2014 regarding formation of Association for Postmaster Cadre. During
meeting it has been intimated by the Director (SR) that no action has been
taken on our request given 1 ½ year ago by our association and that papers are
not traceable in the Directorate. In view of the Director (SR) our 2nd
proposal too is not able to satisfy their requirements completely. Therefore,
we have to submit the fresh proposal for further consideration.
The Discussion in detail:
The matter for recognition of association of
Postmaster Cadre has been discussed in detail with the Director (SR) who is in
the view, why separate association is required for Postmaster Cadre since if we
are already attached with some union/association either of P-III or
Supervisors’ Association and our grievances can be heard through the concern
unions/association. However, after the
long discussion, The Director (SR)
seems to be agreed with recognition of All India Association of Postmaster
Cadre if we have the working strength of
at least 35% members in the cadre and such members should not be attached with
any one of the existing union/association.
The validation process of members for recognition of any association for
the year 2015 going to be started by the Directorate soon and we have to submit
the fresh proposal in the matter to the Directorate as early as possible.
Following should be
incorporated in the proposal to be submitted to Directorate :
1.
Fresh
proposal for formation of association along with the justification of formation
of separate association. Following line should be incorporated in the letter (
No form to represent our grievances at present in the light of 7th
pay commission and name of the association etc).
2.
Cadre
formation letter intimate the total working and sanction strength in Postmaster
Cadre.
3.
Copy
of Memorandum of Association.
4.
By
Laws of Constitution.
5.
List
of Office Bearers and Consent of members. Member ship details should be in the
below format :
Name
of the Member
|
Designation
|
Official
Address
|
Membership
Number
|
In this regard, the President Madam as well as the
General Secretary of All India Association of Postmaster Cadre is requested to
kindly co-ordinate with all the Circle Co-ordinators for initiating action of
Sl 5 above as soon as possible with direction of assurance of Circle
Co-ordinators that no member who gives the consent be the part of any existing
association.
The General Secretary is further requested to submit
the fresh proposal as soon as possible to the Directorate.
S/d-
Sailesh Seth
Asstt . Secretary
AIAPC (CHQ)
***********************************************
Annexure-C(1)
To
The Postmaster / Sr / Chief
Postmaster (DDO)
…………………………….HO
PIN
|
Dated at …………………….…………….…
, the……….
Subject: Request for
withdrawal of membership from ………………… …
………………………… ……… …………….. (Name of Existing Union)
Sir,
With due regard I would like to inform
you that my monthly subscription towards union had been deducting from my pay
bill by your reputed office in favour of …..……..………………………………….... (Name of
Existing Union).
Now in accordance with para 2(iv) of
the Postal Directorate Letter No 13-1/93-SR(Vol.IV) dtd 4-8-1995, I do hereby
withdraw my earlier declaration towards deduction of subscription in favour of ………………………………………………(Name
of Existing Union) and request you not to deduct the subscription any more.
I, therefore, pray to kindly accept my
instant request with prospective effect in accordance with the said provision.
Yours faithfully
Sig, Name & Designation
*************************************************
Annexure-C(2)
To
The Postmaster
Beleghata HO
Kolkata 700010
Dated at Kolkata 700011, the
11/05/2013
Subject: Request for withdrawal of membership from
AIPEU, P3
Sir,
With due regard I would like to inform
you that my monthly subscription towards union had been deducting from my pay
bill by your reputed office in favour of AIPEU, P3.
Now in accordance with para 2(iv) of
the Postal Directorate Letter No 13-1/93-SR(Vol.IV) dtd 4-8-1995, I do hereby
withdraw my earlier declaration towards deduction of subscription in favour of AIPEU and request
you not to deduct the subscription any more.
I, therefore, pray to kindly accept my
instant request with prospective effect in accordance with the said provision.
Yours faithfully
S/d-
(HIMANGSHU KR. MODAK)
Postmaster (Gr-II)
Postmaster (Gr-II)
Narkeldanga PO
Kolkata 700011
Kolkata 700011
*********************************************************
Annexure-D
All India Association of Postmaster Cadre
(Members Declaration Form)
I, …… …… ………… ……… ……… ……, hereby declare that I am
working at …………… …… ……… .…… …… Post Office as Postmaster, Gr-I /
Gr-II / Gr-III * in ………… …… ………. ……… ……… …… ……… ……… …. ……
Division under ….….……… ……… …… Region
in … …… … ……… ……… …… ……..Circle.
I de hereby declare that I am the member of All India
Association of Postmaster Cadre. I agree to follow all rules and by laws of
association. I ensure that I am not a member of any other Union or Association.
Signature of Official
Date: _______________ Name_______________________
Place: _______________ E Mail
______________________
Contact No. _________________
* Strike out whichever in not applicable.
*****************************************************
ANNEXURE-III
LETTER OF AUTHORIZATION
I …………………………………….………………. (Name and designation) being a member of All
India Association of Postmaster Cadre hereby authorize deduction of yearly
subscription of Rs 600.00 (Rupees six hundred only) for the year 2014-15 from
my salary and authorize its payment to All India Association of Postmaster
Cadre.
Signature
Name
Designation
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TO BE FILLED BY THE ASSOCIATION
It is certified that Shri / Smt
………………………………………… . ……………….. ……..………………is a Member of All India Association of
Postmaster Cadre.
Signature of authorized Office Bearer
Minutes of meeting held at Directorate on 04/09/2014
for
All India Association of
Postmaster Cadre.
A meeting has been held with Director (SR) on
04/09/2014 regarding formation of Association for Postmaster Cadre. During
meeting it has been intimated by the Director (SR) that no action has been
taken on our request given 1 ½ year ago by our association and that papers are
not traceable in the Directorate. In view of the Director (SR) our 2nd
proposal too is not able to satisfy their requirements completely. Therefore,
we have to submit the fresh proposal for further consideration.
The Discussion in detail:
The matter for recognition of association of
Postmaster Cadre has been discussed in detail with the Director (SR) who is in
the view, why separate association is required for Postmaster Cadre since if we
are already attached with some union/association either of P-III or
Supervisors’ Association and our grievances can be heard through the concern
unions/association. However, after the
long discussion, The Director (SR)
seems to be agreed with recognition of All India Association of Postmaster
Cadre if we have the working strength of
at least 35% members in the cadre and such members should not be attached with
any one of the existing union/association.
The validation process of members for recognition of any association for
the year 2015 going to be started by the Directorate soon and we have to submit
the fresh proposal in the matter to the Directorate as early as possible.
Following should be
incorporated in the proposal to be submitted to Directorate :
1.
Fresh
proposal for formation of association along with the justification of formation
of separate association. Following line should be incorporated in the letter (
No form to represent our grievances at present in the light of 7th
pay commission and name of the association etc).
2.
Cadre
formation letter intimate the total working and sanction strength in Postmaster
Cadre.
3.
Copy
of Memorandum of Association.
4.
By
Laws of Constitution.
5.
List
of Office Bearers and Consent of members. Member ship details should be in the
below format :
Name
of the Member
|
Designation
|
Official
Address
|
Membership
Number
|
In this regard, the President Madam as well as the
General Secretary of All India Association of Postmaster Cadre is requested to
kindly co-ordinate with all the Circle Co-ordinators for initiating action of
Sl 5 above as soon as possible with direction of assurance of Circle
Co-ordinators that no member who gives the consent be the part of any existing
association.
The General Secretary is further requested to submit
the fresh proposal as soon as possible to the Directorate.
S/d-
Sailesh Seth
Asstt . Secretary
AIAPC (CHQ)
To
The
Hon’ble Director General
Department
of Posts, Dak Bhawan,
Samsad
Marg, New Delhi 110116
Dated
at Mumbai 400017, the 26/08/2014
Subject: Prayer for making Postmaster
Cadre as “Distinct Category” under Clause (c) of Rule 5 of Central Civil
Services (Recognition of Service Association) Rules, 1993 and recognition of
All India Association of Postmaster Cadre
Respected
Madam,
I beg to draw your kind attention on
the following facts for favour of your kind consideration and providing natural
justice to the officials of Postmaster Cadre.
Following line was mentioned in para 2
of the Directorate’s letter no. 4-17/2008-SPB-II dated 22.11.2010, “Thus, in
order to ensure that professionally qualified, trained and meritorious
officials head the key Post Offices, it has been decided to introduce a
separate cadre of Postmasters comprising the following grades by carving out
the posts from existing General Line posts as ordered vide this Directorate’s
letter No. 13-2/2010-PE-I dt. 03.02.2010”
Again, in view of the creator of our cadre,
Madam Radhika Doraiswamy, Hon’ble former DG Posts, Postmaster Cadre is the
front runners of the department and they are made to bring back the past glory
of the department vide her DO No. 1-28/2010- Trg dated 11/08/2011 addressed to
all new entrants of Postmaster Cadre.
We are recruited by merit (by
examination) not by promotion (on the basis of seniority cum fitness).
Our cadre is the only cadre in the Department of Post
for which an exclusive managerial training program has been designed and provided
by the department to make us professionally trained and to cope up with the
change management environment in the department.
We are heading the important Post Offices, in which
all type of services/products offered by the DOP are activated as well as
running smoothly.
We have adequate knowledge regarding computer, server,
and laptop including connectivity of computers which are forming part of
syllabus for LCDE for Postmaster Grade-I Examination.
We always take keen interest in implementing various projects
of the Department sufficiently better than time scale SPMs, LSG / HSG
Supervisors and we always remain in favour of administration in this regard.
We are taking most important role in mechanization of
postal services particularly migration to Core Banking Solution (CBS).
We never participate in any kind of strike/Bandh/Pen
down program, thus rendering uninterrupted services to the members of the
public. As a consequence, existing unions are now, not in a position to make
their strike / bundh programme successful upto that level as they desire.
Some of us belong to Group-C (Postmaster, Gr-I) while
others belong to Gr-B (Postmaster Gr-II, III & Sr Postmaster) in accordance
with the relevant Recruitment Rules.
It is also mentioned against Clarification 2 of the
Directorate’s letter F. No
4-17/2008-SPB-II dated 10th February, 2011, “In case it is decided
to discharge the probationer from Postmaster Grade-I and Grade-II, the official
will be reverted to General Line”. This itself inter-alia
clarifies that the Postmaster Cadre doesn’t belong to General Line in the
Postal Wing of the DOP.
As, presently, we don’t belong to General Line and our
cadre was created against the sweet will of the existing P3 unions, there is no
unions/associations to promote our common service interest in accordance with
Clause (b) of Rule 5 of CCS(RSA) Rules, 1993.
Therefore, in order to promote our common service
interest, we formed our All India Association of Postmaster Cadre (AIAPC) in
our 1st All India Conference held at Rusi Mehta Hall in Mumbai on
01.10.2012 in presence of more than one hundred delegates from different
circles.
We applied for recognition of our AIAPC vide
this association letter dated 15.10.2012, but till today, we didn’t receive any
communication from the Directorate in this regard.
Thereafter, in our 2nd All India Conference
held at OOPER RESTO LOUNGE , Jaipur on 17/08/2014, we have decided to
apply afresh for the recognition of our
association.
Therefore, in accordance with Clause (e) of Rule 5 of
CCS(RSA) Rules, 1993, I do hereby submit the Memorandum of our association,
Constitution bye-laws of AIAPC, names of
the office bearers (prepared in separate
sheet). Here I would like to inform that our total membership is now more than
700.
I, therefore, request before your kindness to
declare the Postmaster Cadre as “Distinct Category” in the Postal Wings. It
is also requested to render recognition to All India Association of
Postmaster Cadre under Rule 5 of CCS (RSA) Rules, 1993 and cause necessary
order for starting verification process
of our membership under Rule 7 of the said rule to enable us to
promote common service interest of our cadre.
We
solicit an early action in this regard. Thanking you,
I remain,
Yours faithfully,
S/d-
S/d-
Sri Ganesh Sable
Postmaster, Grade-I
General Secretary (Ad-hoc Committee)
All India Association of Postmaster Cadre
(Proposed)
Camp at: Dharavi PO, Mumbai-400017
Enclo: As above
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